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To: carranza2 who wrote (139428)	7/8/2004 3:55:34 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Easy one on Aziz- people told Saddam what he wanted to hear. That's been obvious for a long time. So although I appreciate your declaration of victory, it is hardly appropriate. Try to contain yourself. Hope you aren't a premature checkmater, as well. How could he have misunderstood the problems he would cause by being next to SA? I already answered that. He obviously didn't think of the ME as the US's backyard (and took Glaspie's comments as some proof that he was right)- the way we obviously think of it- or, to be more accurate, the way you and our government think of it. He clearly made a mistake thinking about his region as "his" region, and not "our" region. Yes, that was stupid, but not crazy- unless you have read a lot of US history, and then it would be crazy. But Saddam was not well educated, and had not read a lot of US history- too bad for him. You feel free to construct your own reality too- as you have done.